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Word: great (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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This polymorphous streptococcus is the changeable germ which Harvard's great hygienist Milton Joseph Rosenau told an American Medical Association Convention 13 years ago was probably the cause of many baffling infections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Influenza Germ Found | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...possible connection with the 1918 world influenza epidemic was neglected for the theory, best formulated by Simon Flexner and the late great Hideyo Noguchi, that a virus so fine that it seeped through the finest unglazed porcelain was the cause. Dr. Falk went back to the Rosenau indication. When influenza struck Chicago severely last winter, he and his assistants took cultured smears from every throat they could reach. They slept on their desks to avoid losing time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Influenza Germ Found | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...TIME. July 29), told last week what he had reached for: his wife's picture, his father's silver flute, his own good bowie knife. Upon what does the marooned artist then paint the epic of his wanderings? Artist Kent told that too: upon bedsheets furnished by great hearted Greenland Danes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Kentlings | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Isle of lona, Hebrides, the dead body of Miss Emily Farnario, 30, English mental-telepathist, daughter of an Italian surgeon, was found nude, reclining on a great cross that had been cut in 'the turf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...great good fortune Mr. Shattuck ... is perhaps Hoover's closest legal friend. He is the personal attorney for Hoover and all his family. I have persuaded him to undertake a confidential mission to convince Hoover ... on behalf of Cuba. . . . Because of Shattuck's prominence and his intimacy with President Hoover, I expect we shall pay Shattuck . . . something like $75,000. . . . His connection with President Hoover is our strongest weapon. . . . President Hoover has taken a direct hand. He has already suggested a possible solution to Senator Smoot and to Mr. Shattuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Lobby's Weapons | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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